What is Linux and why is it so popular?
What is Linux and why is it so popular? Every desktop computer uses an operating system. The most popular operating systems in use today are: • Windows • Mac OS • UNIX Linux is an operating system — very much like UNIX — that has become very popular over the last several years. Operating systems are computer programs. An operating system is the first piece of software that the computer executes when you turn the machine on. The operating system loads itself into memory and begins managing the resources available on the computer. It then provides those resources to other applications that the user wants to execute. Typical services that an operating system provides include: • A task scheduler – The task scheduler is able to allocate the execution of the CPU to a number of different tasks. Some of those tasks are the different applications that the user is running, and some of them are
